31973R2113

2. 8 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 214/ 17

REGULATION (EEC) No 2113/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 1 August 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 as to the application in Ireland and the United Kingdom of the monetary compensatory amounts in the sector of beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on the importation from third countries ; whereas, COMMUNITIES, therefore, it is advisable to provide that the amounts to be deducted by Ireland and the United Kingdom Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European in accordance with Article 5 (2) of Commission Economic Community ; Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 (3) of 30 May 1973 laying down detailed rules for the application of mone­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 (^ of 12 May 1971 on certain measures on tary compensatory amounts, as amended by Regula­ conjunctural policy to be taken in agriculture tion (EEC) No 1957/73 (4), shall be fixed in an appro­ priate way ; following the temporary widening of the margins of fluctuation for the currencies of certain Member Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation States, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ 1 225/73 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof ; ment Committee for beef and veal ; Whereas the customs duties applied by Ireland on the importation of beef and veal from the third countries HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : are different from those applied by the United Kingdom ; whereas the monetary compensatory Article 1 amounts valid in those two Member States are, there­ fore, equally different on the ground of the applica­ Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1463/73 is tion of Article 4 (a) second paragraph of Regulation completed by the following subparagraph : (EEC) No 974/71 ; whereas this difference provokes ' If the amount to be deducted is different in distortions in the competition between the trade of those two countries with the other Member States, Ireland and in the United Kingdom only the highest amount shall be applied in the two particularly because there are no import charges on Member States'. the trade between Ireland and the United Kingdom ;

Whereas to avoid this distortion the monetary Article 2 compensatory amounts applied by the two Member States in question should be limited to the same This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 August 1973 . amount, equal to the incidence of the lowest charges

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 1 August 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 146, 4. 6 . 1973, p. 1 . 2) OJ No L 125, 11 . 5 . 1973, p. 49 . (4 OJ No L 200, 20 . 7. 1973 , p. 32.